Jiore Craig has spent years tracking the spread of disinformation online. rtraister spoke to her about how far-right media is weaponizing the coronavirus
Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; /Photos: stevanovic igor/Getty Images/iStockphoto The coronavirus pandemic has been marked by medical uncertainty, rapidly changing information, and partisan rancor, making it a prime target for the spread of disinformation: some of that disinformation is about unproven cures, for both the disease and the disintegrating economy; some is intended to delegitimize the politicians who may or may not be in a position to steer the nation through it .
What I should explain is that when multiple publications act at once on a social-media platform they get an algorithmic benefit. So those pages I mentioned often coordinate; they’re posting at the same time and coordinating around specific attacks, and one area where they do that is attacks on women. And there is a good example involving coronavirus.
Usually they’re very quick to decide what line of attack they’re using, but since Trump wasn’t clear on what to say or do about coronavirus for a while, these far-right outlets didn’t have a direct line to use right away. We’ve seen this happen before, most recently around impeachment. It took them a moment and then they all attacked Representative Adam Schiff of California.
What has surprised you about what you’ve found out about the spread of disinformation in the U.S. versus other countries?
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